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India Bans TikTok, WeChat and More Chinese Apps Due To Security

India has ban TikTok and several other popular apps from China claiming that those apps have posed a threat to the ‘sovereignty and integrity’ of their country.

As said by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in a statement on Monday, many complaints were received regarding the misuse and transmission of user data by some mobile apps to servers outside the country.

Picture: Financial Times

“The compilation of these data, it’s mining, and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defense of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures,” said the ministry.

“There has been a strong chorus in the public space to take strict action against apps that harm India’s sovereignty as well as the privacy of our citizens,” added the ministry.

A total of 59 apps that was ban by India. Other apps from China that also was banned like WeChat, Weibo, and CamScanner. Gaming apps like Clash of Kings were also banned.

The banning comes after tensions rose between India and China following the deadly clashes that happen early month of June that resulted in 20 Indian soldiers dead.

Source: CNN, BBC News

Adib Mohd

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